St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-12
FURTHER DETAILS.
Probably Thirty People Lost Their
Lives in the Wreck.

KoUTs, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE worst
horrors of Chatsworth were duplicated
here to-day. A dozen blood-stained,
smake-begrimed. injured victims of
railroad carelessness, or laundering,
were brought into the villages little
station house early this morning, and
this afternoon nine charred cOrpSeS,
victims OF the same laundering OF care
lessness, were laid upon the station
platform, while three miles west, down
railway, near lonely old water tank,
piles OF fearfully tangled debris marked
the spot where collision. seldom
eoualed for terrible results, had oc-
Cured. According to the best estimate
obtainable-for only an estimate
was possible-fully thirty hui
man lives had been sacrificed
outright and half that number of per
sons had suffered injuries more OR less
serious. The east bound express that
left Chicago last night had, without
moments warning, during a temporary
wait, been smashed into behind by a
heavily loaded fast freight, plunging
madly forward in the darkness, in hur-
rying dressed meat to the mar
kets of the seaboard. Some part
OF inc HldCAlncly VI ehC pas
senger engine had been thrown out of
order during the run from Chicago. A
trifing stop at the water tank would
make it all right, it was thought. and
the stop was accordingly made. Sud-
denly. out of the darkness behind came
the flash of a headlight, the rush and
rattle of many wheels and then a mighty
crash. Just as at ChatSworth, the sleep
ing coach now got in its
deadly work. The massive frame
work of the sleeper was TRANSFORMED
into huge catapult, pushed mercilessly
forward by the freight. 1t crushed into
the cars forward, smashing their COM
paratlvely light timbers and making the
work of destruction complete. The
wreck quickly took fire and the sight of
the shrieking victims and dancing
flames was one never to be forgotten
This morning, at the little hotel at
Kouts. the engineer of the passenger
train told the following story of
THE TERRIBLE DISASTER:
We passed No. 40 at Boone Grove ON
time and started toward Kouts. No. 40
pulled out of the station In less than two
minutes behind us, when they should have
waited much longer. When we were well
away from the town we could see her lights
but little way behind. We were not run
ming very fast because the engine was ION
one side We had broken an eccentric
strap and were running but one pair
disconnect the other pair of wheels, which
were rnnning loose. Of course the accident
held our speed down a little, but we had no
idea that the engineer of No. 40 would have
The last time 1 looked behind there was
ample room between us. We stopped at the
Boone Grove water tank and were there al
most minute before they struck us.
William Gaghyau. the conductor of
the Chicago, st. Louis IL PittSburg con-
StructiOn train now working between
KOutS and Hebron, a small station ten
the results of the accident. His con
struction train runs into Kouts every
evening with its load of tired wOrkmen
and the conductor sleeps in one of the
little hotels of which the town boasts.
He was wakened at o'clock
this morning to take out a
Wabash train that had been delayed by
the wreck. Upon going down stairs in
the hotel he found all confusion. In
the little parlOr boy some fifteen years
of age was stretched upon the floor lit
orally mangled and torn to pieces, with
just enough life left in his body to speak
in faint whispers to those who asked
him about the accident. In the room
Ol TIC psiIlOI diloIucI Dcy Was IyluS
with serious bruises about the
head. In one of the upper
rooms he learned that the engineer of
the wrecked meat train was lying al
most at the point of death. So hideOus
were these sights and SO piteOus were
the cries of anguish which were to be
heard on all sides that the sturdy con-
ductOr could eat nothing and huryied to
his duties, glad to escape such scene.
In the little Sitting-room of the cottage
which serves as hotel in this town, two
of the wounded survivors of the accident
still remained late this afternoon. Her
man Miller, Bohemian boy on his way
from Dundee, ILL.,, to the old country,
was stretched out on the lounge in the
low. dark room. His head is fearfully
battered and his right leg fractured.
The other wounded man is Joseph Nc
Cove, a bartender of Boston. who, had
he not been passenger on the fated
train, would have been welcomed in
Chicago by relatives whom he has not
seen for years.
HIS INJURIES
are for the most part internal, and are
not so severe but that his recovery is
possible. He was able to tell of the
awful occurrence as follows:
was in the passenger coach which was
next TO the last car in the train. just before
midnight | went into the smoker, which was
just ahead OF our car and chatted for an hour
ana came back to the coach with young
man who sat down near me- That is the last
I've seen or expect to see Of the poor fellow.
Just as / had stretched myself out to go to
sleep, and oalmost before closed my eyes,
help me, l never want to hear
again. could feel myself thrown violently